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Brundage covers were very popular with the readers of Weird Tales, but most of the public was not aware of the artist's gender, because her work was usually signed 'M. Her work often featured fantasy scenes of women trapped in sexually vulnerable situations. Brundage went on to create covers for other magazines produced by the same publisher, Popular Fiction Publishing, including The Magic Carpet and most famously for Weird Tales.īrundage sold sixty-six original pulp cover illustrations to Weird Tales from 1933 to 1945. Her first pulp cover was for the September 1932 Oriental Stories. He was often absent from home, so her mother lived with them and helped to keep house and raise Kerlynn. Her husband was a house painter, an activist in the Chicago labor movement, and was also an alcoholic. In 1927 she married Myron 'Slim' Brundage, who was born in 1903 in Idaho.

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She got her first professional job in 1925 drawing pen & ink designs for the local fashion industry. When her father died in 1910, she was raised by her mother and grandmother, who were both devoted Christian Scientists.Īfter she graduated high school she studied fashion design at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts from 1921-23, but failed to graduate. Johnson, born 1871 in Illinois of Scottish ancestry. Johnson, born 1871 in Illinois of Swedish ancestry. Margaret Brundage was born Margaret Hedda Johnson on Decemin Chicago.

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